Word: plug
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Though wily John Chapman is the only oldtime bicycle rider who has become important in promoting races, many other men now-famed in quieter trades were once pedalers. Some are: George Collett, father of National Woman's Golf Champion Glenna Collett; the late Albert Champion, A. C. Spark Plug man; Howard ("Poke") Freeman, cartoonist on the Newark Evening News; Worthington Longfellow Mitten, Davenport, Iowa, builder of bicycles. And many men still famed above everything else for their cycling days have done well in quieter trades. Frank Kramer, 18 times U. S. sprint champion, is police commissioner of East Orange...
...with Harvard officials relative to the recording and popularizing of "Harvardiana" and "Our Director", two Harvard songs to which the famous New York crooner had supposedly been denied the rights, and declared that in making phonograph records of the songs he believed that he "was giving Harvard a good plug just as he had done for Maine with the 'Stein Song...
...Warner). A new picture starring Al Jolsonlis known beforehand to be little save a skeletal frame upon which he may hang gags ancient and new, plug sentimental ballads, caper through dance steps and behave in the approved Jolson manner. Big Boy is a cinemized version of the musicomedy of the same name in which he appeared for the Shuberts five years ago, a hackneyed, outlandish tale of a proud Southern family staking all on the Kentucky Derby, blackmailers, a forged check, an errant son, a happy musicomedy ending. Big Boy is the horse on which Jolson as Gus, the maligned...
...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
...dialog or situation makes this picture sparkle, yet it sparkles; its story is unremarkable, yet continuously entertaining. It concerns a prizefighter who loses an important fight because he takes seriously an opponent who tells him his shoe is untied. Later, having returned to his original profession of spark-plug cleaning, he plays polo for his home-town team and makes love to a society girl. Jack Oakie performs these activities with the necessary absurdity, and with wonderfully skillful, probably unconscious character reading. Like all true comedians, his fooling is human and remotely pathetic. Typical shot : Oakie composing a song...